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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · Nov 26
I fell down a research rabbit hole when I discovered that brides in early modern England wore knives (!) and ended up writing an entire article about it #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Project MUSE - Knives and Femininity on the Early Modern Stage
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My current #FridayReads is WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY by Mona Awad. 💙📚
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This week’s #FridayReads is Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis 💙📚
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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This week’s #FridayReads is Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis 💙📚
November 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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On the Clubland Substack: the 1st of a 2-part article, offering a deep dive into clubs in the world of John Le Carré's George Smiley.

This one looks at Smiley's fictional clubs; their influences; & how they change between the original novels & the TV version.
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Clubman, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: George Smiley's clubs
Part 1 of 2
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November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Since the Booker Prize winner will be announced tomorrow, here’s my thoughts on my personal favourite 💙📚
The cover of The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. The bottom half is white to represent snow, with two houses on top, one at either side of the cover, and behind them the sky is purple and pink. One December morning in 1962, Rita crosses the field separating her husband's farm from the doctor's cottage and begins an unlikely friendship with Irene, bonding despite their different backgrounds over their pregnancy and the loneliness of their days. But as the harshest winter in living memory draws in, trouble is brewing in this quiet corner of English countryside... As soon as I started The Land in Winter, I knew that it was going to be good. I love the way this book is written, somehow concise and languorous at the same time, almost cinematic in the way it tells the story while remaining elliptic enough to keep the pages turning. I have seen reviews describing it as a slow read, but this wasn't my experience. It's a book that demands you take your time, but I would quite happily have read it in one sitting had time allowed. I was increasingly reluctant to put this one down, and I found my mind returning to it in the hours I was forced to. The story is also a quiet one, incrementally building in tension towards a crisis point, but centred around ordinary lives. And yet I found the plot riveting, as l came to care for these characters, the evocative writing making me believe in the world Miller has created. I also loved the way the story is told, moving fluidly between characters' perspectives and playing around with the timeline, so that you never quite know what is going to happen next. I knew early on that this was going to be a five-star read for me, and I wasn't disappointed by the ending. I really loved the time I spent with this book, and it's my personal favourite from this year's Booker Prize nominees.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Love a pocket paperback - the smaller the better 💙📚

#BookishQOTD
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— ★°•| November 8 |•°★ —

What's your preferred reading medium? Be as specific as you want!! (i.e. if you like hardbacks, do you like leather bound, cloth bound, etc. more?)

☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆

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Text: Saturday Image: blue and white collaged elephant on a white grid background
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This week’s belated #FridayReads was She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena. So good! 💙📚
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This week’s #FridayReads is The High Window by Raymond Chandler 💙📚
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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This week’s #FridayReads is The High Window by Raymond Chandler 💙📚
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Happy publication day to Palaver by Bryan Washington - my favourite of his books so far 💙📚

My thoughts ⬇️
The cover of Palaver by Bryan Washington, which features a two brightly lit vending machines against a nighttime, urban backdrop. The son has been living in Japan for twelve years and hasn't spoken to his mother in the last three, when she suddenly turns up unannounced. Once he realises how much it will cost to fly her back to America early, the son agrees that the mother can stay - as long as she doesn't get in his way... I've been a fan of Bryan Washington's writing ever since I read Lot (his debut short story collection), and fellow fans won't be disappointed by Palaver's grounded sense of place, descriptions of food you can almost taste, and layered sex scenes. But Palaver is my favourite of his books so far. Washington's sparse style of writing works so well to create a sense of distance between the son and the mother. If I've liked rather than loved Washington's previous books, it's because I found the characters a little unmemorable. Here, the focus on just two characters and the sense of their unknowability prevent that from being a problem. I loved the way Washington's terse dialogue and staccato paragraphs become part of his characterisation, as the son and mother so often leave things unsaid. This creates an ambiguity that lets the reader decide whose side they are on, as the story remains in third-person but flips between the son's and mother's perspectives. It also makes the son and mother feel like real people, elevating the dysfunctional family trope. I have to admit that the length of Palaver coupled with its frequent movements through time did mean I couldn't always completely keep track of everyone, especially since I took my time reading it, savouring the writing and perhaps finding the frequent breaks made it a little too easy to put down. But this means that I can look forward to rereading it, and seeing how all the little pieces come together to make the bigger picture.
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon
Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon
This brooding tale of an Englishman’s downfall in fin-de-siècle Venice is memorably eerie – but it’s hard to care about such a pompous protagonist
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September 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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5⭐️ reads in October 💙📚

Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum
November 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Currently reading Love Forms by Claire Adam #FridayReads 💙📚
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This week’s #FridayReads is Venetian Vespers by John Banville 💙📚
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This week’s #FridayReads is Venetian Vespers by John Banville 💙📚
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📚 Bookish Checkpoint 📚💙

✨ Last Read: ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ - Raymond Chandler
✨ Current Read: ‘Venetian Vespers’ - John Banville
✨ Last Added To TBR: ‘Burying Jericho’ - William Hussey
✨ Next Up: ‘Passing’ - Nella Larsen
A hand holding a (shiny library) Everyman’s edition of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window by Raymond Chandler against a white wall. The cover of Venetian Vespers by John Banville, which features snow falling against a backdrop of Venice. The cover of Burying Jericho by William Hussey, which is bright pink with a black coffin in the centre, inside which is a neon green helter-skelter and the silhouette of a man. The tagline reads: Murder won’t stay buried. The cover of Passing by Nella Larsen, which is a film tie-in edition. The left-hand side of the cover is black and features Tessa Thompson, and the right-hand side is white and features Ruth Negga.
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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For @letterboxd.social I wrote a starter pack of films directed by women to watch this #Noirvember!
Films Fatale: a starter pack of twenty noir features directed by women • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Noirvember founder Marya E. Gates rings in the month of moral ambiguities and mysteries with a starter pack of twenty women-directed noir features—cigarettes and stilettos not included.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Happy publication day to The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery - a fun and fresh take on the locked room mystery 💙📚

My thoughts ⬇️
The cover of The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery (a Stockingham & Pike mystery), which is dark blue with a large house in the middle and waves at the bottom, all in dark brown. Believing that Halley's Comet will bring about the end of the world, the Viscount of Tithe Hall gives orders for it to be sealed from top to bottom. When the servants and guests wake the next morning, it is to find the world still standing but the Viscount dead... I love a locked-room mystery, and The Murder at World's End has both a remote setting with a small pool of suspects (which is what the term usually refers to) and a dead body found inside an actual locked room. Tithe Hall is also located on a remote tidal island. I loved the different possibilities investigated by the characters, as well as the final solution which manages to be both surprising and satisfying. The Murder at World's End also adds a fresh twist to the locked-room trope with its apocalyptic setting, which really adds to the tension and atmosphere in the first part of the book. The Murder at World's End is mostly narrated by Stephen Pike, Tithe's Hall newest under-butler, who immediately finds himself under suspicion but discovers an unlikely ally in Miss Decima Stockingham, the fearless and forthright matriarch he is ordered to wait upon. Their characters both have a touch of the cliché about them, but I loved the way Ross Montgomery uses them to tackle the class issues that pervade his book's setting. I found The Murder at World's End an absorbing and humorous read, especially in its depiction of the hapless Inspector Jarvis, and I would definitely be happy to read more books in the series.
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I thought as it's #Spooktober I'd share my A-Z* of Stephen King books.

Feel free to comment with your own favourites for each letter 😀

*I might need to get a bit creative with some of the letters!

🩸📚💙 #BookSky #Books #Readers #A-Z #StephenKing #Horror #SpookySeason

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Two shelves containing a selection of Stephen King books
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
Those in need of free emergency contraception no longer have to see their GP or attend a sexual health clinic The NHS has made the morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England in an effort to reduce a “postcode lottery” of access to emergency contraception. Almost 10,000 pharmacies are now able to offer the pill without charge, saving those in need of free emergency contraception from having to visit their GP or to get an appointment at a sexual health clinic. Continue reading...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I, a hip and with-it young person, explain the "Six Seven" trend for old people www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
What is ‘Six Seven’ and why is the world currently obsessed with this latest online trend?
The viral phrase from a 2024 rap track has children shouting in unison — and leaving adults utterly lost
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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The premise of two fed-up housewives convincing themselves they have earned a holiday has become a familiar one, but The Enchanted April continually surprises.

I can see why people are always recommending this one (4⭐️) 💙📚
The cover of The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, Collins Classics edition.
October 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I delivered this back in July, after which it got postponed. I gave plenty of notice of the dates I was going to be away in October & thus unavailable for rewrites, and of course they needed rewrites during those exact same dates, so someone else had to chip in. So it goes. Hope it reads ok.
Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money
With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the process
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October 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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“A gray Plymouth sedan tailed me away from the City Hall. I gave it a chance to catch up with me on a quiet street. It refused the offer, so I shook it off and went about my business.”

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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My current #FridayReads is Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. 💙📚
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This week’s #FridayReads is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, which is a reread for me 💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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This week’s #FridayReads is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, which is a reread for me 💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah, her latest Hercule Poirot mystery, is out today 💙📚

My thoughts ⬇️
The cover of The Last Death of the Year (a Hercule Poirot mystery) by Sophie Hannah, which is white and features a lit match burning down. It's New Year's Eve in 1932, and Inspector Catchpool of Scotland Yard is looking forward to a well-earned holiday on the idyllic Greek island of Lamperos. But he soon begins to suspect that Hercule Poirot had another reason for inviting him, one that requires them to catch a murderer before the clock strikes twelve... The Last Death of the Year is the sixth book written by Sophie Hannah to feature Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot, but it can easily be read as a standalone. This is quite a slow mystery, in keeping with the gentle tone of the originals, but tension simmers from the very first page as Catchpool is recounting events that have already taken place. Catchpool makes for a relatable and humorous narrator, who guides the reader through the story, and reassures us that he is always a step behind Poirot too. In classic Christie fashion, The Last Death of the Year features a suspicious cast of characters in an isolated location, and Sophie Hannah (who has written a book about holding grudges) seems to have added her own twist by making the suspects a religious community centred around forgiveness. I greatly enjoyed the descriptions of Lamperos, and I loved the distinctive characters Hannah has created. I was also impressed by the mystery itself, which kept me guessing to the end without resorting to implausible reveals. This wasn't quite a five-star read for me, but I loved getting to spend more time with Poirot, and I continue to enjoy Hannah's take on Agatha Christie. Fans of cosy crime, locked room mysteries, and unlikable characters won't be disappointed.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Today i'm on the @annerandomthings.bsky.social for #TheWinterJob the latest hilarious comedy crime caper from Antti Tuomainen. It's translated by David Hackston and is published tomorrow by @orendabooks.bsky.social how difficult is it to deliver a sofa
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The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen #BookReview #TheWinterJob #AnttiTuomainen #RoadTrip #CrimeCaper
A simple task, to deliver a sofa, what could possibly go wrong?
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October 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM